yomgui: have you ever had a version of blender 2.46 working with videos (compiled with ffmpeg)? afair we discussed this once and you've said something aout trying something:) 2.46 with working video editing will be good as well (most of the tutorials i've found about blender video editing were for 2.46 anyway:) at least its stable and not in alpha/beta stage.
sad but os4 users can already use them blender port to edit videos while users of "the most advanced amiga os ever"... still have to boot another os to do that (or trying to mess with mencoder in shell:)